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Sara Crangle, Peter Nicholls - On Bathos, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2010

On Bathos

Literature, Art, Music

Av Sara Crangle, Peter Nicholls

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While the sublime has garnered a great deal of critical attention over the past twenty years, its counterpart, bathos, has yet to receive any extended treatment. Generally understood as an inadvertent descent to the low, vulgar, and ludicrous in writing or art, the term "bathos" was popularised by Pope, who used it to satirise his contemporaries. Ironically likening bathos to the depths of profundity, Pope lauded his peers for their influential writings whilst openly deriding their absurd misuses of figure and rhetorical device. Pope's method proved prophetic: today, artists regularly celebrate and incorporate bathetic practice. This essay collection considers how bathos has become so central to literature, fine art, and music. The innovative and diverse contributions assess the consequences of this endemic inversion of aesthetic standards, and consider where artistic production might go after hitting, and so comfortably inhabiting, rock bottom.
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Sara Crangle is a Lecturer at the University of Sussex, UK, and the author of Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowing, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh UP). PETER NICHOLLS is Professor of English and American Literature and Director of The Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.

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"We think we know what bathos is and how to judge it. This fascinating collection of essays shows just how mistaken we have been. Bathos is a concept that productively unsettles many existing concepts of reception, interpretation, literary value, affect, and ideology. With scholarly wit and a highly readable awareness of the potential bathos of commentary, these essays explore the origins of the idea and its contribution to modern culture, in a compelling series of close readings of both familiar and surprising manifestations in art, poetry, fiction, and music. At the risk of a bathetic blurb, a risk that these poets and scholars suggest is almost unavoidable, I will say that this is an essential volume for anyone wishing to follow current developments in the literary and cultural study of the highs and lows of modern arts."

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